The Glass Bottom Boat Page #3

-Oh, that's all right,

-Excuse me, thanks a lot.

Class! You can't tell me

she goes to class every night.

-You didn't talk about that idiotic dog.

-l didn't get a chance.

Barking, barking,

every time the phone rings.

Hello, my love. l missed you.

Hello there. Hello, sweetheart.

Call a cop. Call a cop.

Cop yourself. Hello. Hey, hello, fish.

You all there?

You hungry for your din-din? Okay.

Come on, eat hearty, kids, no hooks.

-Hello, sweetheart.

-Hello, my sweetheart.

Corky? Where's my boy?

Unit Four, Los Angeles.

This is 1 1-Q, 1 1-73, Unit Two...

...Santa Catalina calling.

Come in, please.

-Come in, Unit Two.

-Hi, Jenny.

Hi, Pop. Say, you'll be happy to hear

we got the mermaid outfit back.

-Yeah? How?

-lf l told you, you'd never believe it.

Tell me about it when you come over

on the weekend.

l don't think l can make it this weekend.

l've got a million things l have to do.

But, Jenny, you've gotta come over.

l've got to have a mermaid.

-Use Nina.

-l said, mermaid, not ''whale-maid. ''

''Couldn't find the tail.

Will this cover you?''

Hey, Jenny, you talking to yourself?

Yeah, l guess so.

That's what you get for living alone

with birds, dogs and tropical fish.

lf you'd said you couldn't come

because of a boyfriend. . .

-. . .that would be different.

-There you go again. Nag, nag, nag.

Okay. Talk to you tomorrow.

Oh, okay, Pop.

So long, Nina, no hard feelings.

What do you mean, ''whale-maid''?

Let's face it, baby doll.

You ain't no guppy.

-He's kidding.

-Oh, no.

Okay, try RP minus 27 over Y-squared.

-Okay?

-Right.

Sir, l happen to have a dossier

on the girl, if you care to hear it.

What? Oh, yeah. Go, Homer.

''Dossier. Jennifer Nelson:

married, widowed.

Husband, Randolph Nelson:

oceanographer. ''

-Oceanographer.

-Thank you, sir.

''He went down in a diving bell

off the Bahamas. End of husband.

Father, Axel Nordstrom,

operates glass-bottom boat in Catalina.

Girl lives alone with dog, two mynah birds

and tropical fish.

Hobbies:
boating and cooking.

Won first prize in baking contest

for banana-cream cake.

Holds navigator's license number 7256.

Currently taking night courses in--''

Now are you ready for this?

''Dramatic writing, ballet, sculpture. . .

. . .music appreciation, radio telegraphy,

ceramics and mapmaking. ''

-Mapmaking. And l thought l was busy.

-You got some problem with this girl, sir?

Yeah, the toughest kind, Homer.

Two bodies moving in different orbits.

There's an equation for everything.

You were quoted on that

in one of the magazines.

Yeah, you take Mars

and you take Venus.

-Yes, sir.

-Well, Mars is locked in his orbit. . .

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